Pundit

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By: Tony McDowell, Staff Attorney Genesee County FOC

Every year, the fall colors remind Pat that a new child support struggle is coming. Pat works for a lawn care and snow plowing business and goes on unemployment every fall during the slow season when the grass does not grow and when it is too warm to snow. By now, Pat knows the drill: file for unemployment and wait – then receive the enforcement letter from the FOC. Pat performs the annual ritual knowing that by the time the FOC schedules a show cause hearing, the FOC will be collecting support plus a little something extra to repay the arrears.

Last year, three Michigan counties – Huron (Joanne Brooks, FOC Director; Timothy Rutkowski, Prosecuting Attorney), Marquette (Andrea Monnett, FOC Director; Matthew Wiese, Prosecuting Attorney), and Tuscola (Sandra Erskine, FOC Director; Mark Reene, Prosecuting Attorney) – maximized their performance on all five performance-based incentive factors. This is the first time any county in Michigan has maximized all performance factors since the performance-based incentive program’s inception in 2000. Pennsylvania is the only state that has maximized its performance on all factors.

[Ed. Note: This article is reprinted from the October 2012 Pundit with some edits.]

By: Paul Gehm, Management Analyst, SCAO Friend of the Court Bureau

2015 PA 52 – Child Custody Act (effective 9-7-15)

MICHIGAN COURT OF APPEALS DECISIONS